[3][7][8] Between the 19th and 20th centuries, the theater scene in São Paulo was consolidated with the visit of tourists coming from Rio de Janeiro, the federal capital at the time, and from Europe.

From the 1880s, renowned actors and actresses nationally and internationally such as Sarah Bernhardt, Gustavo Modena, Ernesto Rossi and Eleonora Duse arrived in the city and encouraged the organization of dramatic amateur societies.

The context of cultural effervescence incentivized the creation of the Dramatic and Musical Conservatory of São Paulo, inspired by the Conservatoire de Paris.

On October 27 and 29, 1904, the Bill n. 43/1904, which would create the Conservatory, was proposed by a committee of 12 councilors headed by Pedro Augusto Gomes Cardim, to be subsidized by the City Hall.

Because it burdens the municipal coffers with an expense incompatible with their resources, making it impossible to carry out the realization of the city's improvement plan, in the execution route.

[11] A house was rented on Brigadeiro Tobias street in Bairro da República, São Paulo to host the activities of the conservatory.

[3][14] In the course of dramatic art, the first teachers were Pedro Augusto Gomes Cardim, Venceslau de Queiroz (who taught Literature and Aesthetics), Luiz Pinheiro da Cunha, Hipólito da Silva (Diction) Augusto César Barjona (History of Theater) and Felipe Lorenzi (who was replaced in 1922 by Mário de Andrade).

The masters of the conservatory of German and Italian origin were removed by the government through the intervenor Carlos Augusto Gomes Cardim, appointed by Getúlio Vargas, who believed that teachers would be involved with fascism.

Difficulties such as the lack of resources, high tuition fees, the decline of the architectural heritage and delayed salaries were crucial to the weakening of the school's activities in subsequent years.

The Preliminary Study of Revitalization – Dramatic and Musical Conservatory São Paulo, 1980, carried out by the team of technicians of the Preservation Division of the Department of Historical Heritage of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, determined the renovation of the building of Av.

[1] An agreement between the CDMSP Foundation and the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, in addition to the contract with EMURB, was made to make the work feasible, which resulted in the new building with an area of 1,565 m² that now houses the music school.

On November 25, 2000, the Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage of the State of São Paulo (CONDEPHAAT), decided to open the process of study of the building's listing.

[20] In 2006, the year of the centenary of the institution, José Serra, then mayor of the city of São Paulo, determined the expropriation of the place for the construction of the cultural complex Praça das Artes.

Without a certificate of no debts to access the money, the conservatory tried to appeal to the courts to annul the decrees, but lost to the city government and in 2008 the expropriation was completed.

The institution began to operate in borrowed premises and with third-party instruments, in addition to no longer having its library collection, until it closed its activities in 2009.

[5][21] The project of the Plaza de las Artes provided for the restoration of the main building of the conservatory, with the installation of the Municipal Theater Museum on the ground floor, intended for temporary exhibitions and events.

[1] With a capacity for 200 people, the concert hall is the official headquarters of the São Paulo City String Quartet and hosts chamber, contemporary, orchestral and choral music performances.